Calendar



J. R. KING. Calendar.

Patented Aug. 10, .1880. f\

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JOSIAS n. KING, OF sT. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,055, dated August10, 1880. Application filed May 14, 1880. (Model.)

10 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSIAS 1%. KING, of St. Paul, in the county ofRamsey and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and ImprovedCalendar, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to produce a calendar, which 1 call theEconomical Advertising Calendar, at small cost compared with those nowin ordinary use, and at the same time furnish all inforn'iation usuallycontained in calendars, which information is presented to the eye in anew and compact form.

The drawing illustrates my new and improved calendar, only so much ofthe figures to be placed upon the table being shown as is necessary toshow the arrangement.

As usually constructed a calendar of the class to which my inventionbelongs has twelve sheets, one for each calendar month, having properlyarranged the name of the month and year, the days of the week, month,and year, advertisements, and other information, the sheets beingattached to a card-board back.

Instead of this construction, in my calendar I print the time-table uponthe face of the cardboard A, placing immediately above the names of thedays of the week the name of the twelfth month of the year, December. Tothe card-board, immediately above the time-table, so as just to coverthe name of the month printed thereon, are fastened eleven slips, B,arranged to be folded upwardly successively as the month the name ofwhich is printed upon one of the slips expires. As each slip is foldedback it is slipped underarubber band.

The saving effected by this mode of con structin g calendars is verylarge. For example, in manufacturing one hundred thousand calendars ofthe size shown Isave by the omis- 4o sion of the eleven sheetsninely-six reams of paper, weighing, nearly two and one-half tons.

In addition to this, the cost of the printing of the eleven extra sheetsof each calendar is saved. 5

VVhat- I have termed the time-table is also a calendar, showing not onlythe day of the week and month, but the day of the year also. The numbersof the days of the month are also printed upon the face of thetime-table in larger figures or in a different color from that of thefigures of the time-table. By this arrangement the time-table becomesemphatically a ready reckoner. The information being all presented uponone surface, the calculation of the number of days, from one date toanother is rapidly made without the necessity of turning several sheets.

Having thus described my invention,I claim 7 as new and desire to secureby Letters Pat- 6o ent Acalendar having the time-table in verticalcolumns, surmounted by the year and last month thereof, and providedabove these with 1 an elastic cord, U, and eleven slips, B, each of thelatter containing one of the first eleven months and the year, as shownand described.

JOSIAS R. KING. Witnesses:

J. J. MoOARDY, W. T. BURR.

